They are drawing near, and want to inform me how things are with them. From the way they are controlling their voices, I can tell that they do not want to say anything wrong, and that they long for deeper things; for they are weighing their words. They say that when they are being maltreated, then they are black, and afterwards, they put off the blackness, and put on the shining whiteness of the soul, and so enter into heaven. Now they are surprised they had had a painful sensation, which, upon looking back, they attribute to fantasies; for they now say they have no such sensation, but only a pleasant and paradisal one. 1748, the 7th day of January.